Last year I found myself studying Anthony's stories again.
"I was by myself, studying the gospel, reflecting on the Sermon on the Mount.
In Juárez, I found myself studying old posters on the walls inside Arena Kalaka.
I now find myself studying the woods far less often, despite the fact that my office faces the backyard.
From time to time, I find myself studying a photograph of her taken in the summer of 1962, when she was pregnant with me, the first of her three children.
I found myself studying faces and gestures – that word again – as I waited for a moment of revelation that never quite materialised.
Once I found myself studying the photos near a fart button, or under the banner of "gross-out," I wasn't so self-satisfied.
But it was - it had to be - Rattle's evening and I found myself studying him closely, with a sense that he was as much in charge of audience as orchestra (that evocative back view).
Not only were they all very cleverly composed, and beautiful to listen to, but I found myself studying the paintings in a way that I wouldn't have done without the soundtrack, and appreciating them all the more because of that.
I confess, I'm a bit of a geek myself, studying psychology for a year to deepen my understanding of the criminal mind, and in 2010, I embarked on my own ongoing "Crime Story", entering into a writing collaboration with forensic scientist Dave Barclay.
But I quickly found engineering to be too dry and mathematical so, almost by default, I found myself studying (and enjoying) the biological sciences.
